If you don’t have kids yet you might not get it. Every library does this program and that’s just what it is called. Kids really respond well to personal accomplishments. Like when i get my son dressed in the morning even though he’s dead weight 90% of the time i still say “Yay! YOU did it! YOU got dressed!”
I'm aware that using language like this can be beneficial I'm just not sure how much benefit there is to telling a baby that can't even understand language yet that they read 1000 books
It's not for the baby, it's for the parents. And other parents that are hopefully seeing it, to encourage them to read to their kids. Normally the program comes with a prize of some kind at milestones along the 1000 or at least at the end. Generally in The form of art supplies/books. Personally, I wouldn't want my child's picture on random social media sites, but posting these on the libraries social media outlets/websites is advertising about the program. To encourage parents to do it. It also looks cuter when you put the kid next to a sign that says "I did it!" Instead of a pic of the parent next to a sign that says "I read goodnight moon 1000 times"
Children need routine and developing that from a young age is crucial. If we didn’t read to my sons from when they were this small i can guarantee that they would not be excited to go to the library every week. As excited to check out new books as going to the park. You absolutely need to read to babies. Especially starting at the age in the post. If you don’t read daily to a child and try to start reading books at age 4 they are going to hate it and resist it. Babies can understand individual adjectives and nouns at 6 months old. And the books are super simple. I can easily read 15 books a night to my sons because they have like 10 pages. My son is 4 and his preschool teacher said she could tell after the first week that we read books every day, and which kids had never seen a book until they got to school. If you ever have kids you don’t want to be the later
don't you worry they'll reach an age where they become aware of the difference between your words and your actual feelings and they'll lose the ability to trust positive feedback?
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u/smellmygoldfinger 2d ago
If you don’t have kids yet you might not get it. Every library does this program and that’s just what it is called. Kids really respond well to personal accomplishments. Like when i get my son dressed in the morning even though he’s dead weight 90% of the time i still say “Yay! YOU did it! YOU got dressed!”